Groff's Gorgeous Apartment

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/jonathan-groff-greenwich-village-apartment?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=ArchDigest/magazine/Classic

When can I move in?

 

A lovely space. I’m jealous.


I'm not judging, but I don't understand why he (or anybody else) would share his personal sanctuary like this. His bedroom is a “refuge from the demands of public life", so he shares it with the world in photos?

It just seems like such an invasion of personal space. I could never.

Is there some practical reason for this? He gets a deal on the name-checked products? He's trying to help out his friend by advertising his work?
 

Again, I’m not judging, there's absolutely nothing wrong with his choice to do this, I just don’t understand why anyone would.

Updated On: 6/6/26 at 09:48 AM

Jay Lerner-Z said: "

A lovely space. I’m jealous.


I'm not judging, but I don't understand why he (or anybody else) would share his personal sanctuary like this. His bedroom is a “refuge from the demands of public life", so he shares it with the world in photos?

It just seems like such an invasion of personal space. I could never.

Is there some practical reason for this? He gets a deal on the name-checked products? He's trying to help out his friend by advertising his work?


Again, I’m not judging, there's absolutely nothing wrong with his choice to do this."

Maybe trying to help the designer get work.  I never saw a designer physically in photos like this before.

Someone once told me almost all AD-style tours it's either the designer basically did it for free (and got a lot of free things for the space) in order to have to shown as a calling card OR they do them to help them sell the house/apartment.

Considering how obsessive his fans can be I agree sharing the layout of your home can be dangerous. 

Another theatre star, Patina Miller, was also on Architectural Digest and her home is BREATHTAKING

It's very pretty but doesn't really feel like a home, there's nothing personal. It's as warm as furniture showroom. 

somecheapfrenchthing said: "I thought I saw his Tony on display right under the tv."

 

Zoomed in on it and it is.

 

uncageg said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Another theatre star, Patina Miller, was also on Architectural Digest and her home is BREATHTAKING"

Someone posted hers when it came out. It is quite beautiful."

It was fun for me to compare personal tastes of the two (Groff vs Miller). Mostly I focused on their choices of art on their walls.

I definitely share Miller's over Groff's. There was only one piece in Groff's space that I coveted (that piece above his sofa with its desert theme - the car with its headlights on really drew me in).

I loved every piece in Miller's home. My particular favorites were: 1) the textile tapestry in her playroom, and 2) the Aurel K. Basedow artwork in her family room (and especially how the throw pillows pulled that piece into the seating). 

I love the warmth of an autumn palate.

It reminded me immediately of Karen and Lloyd's apartment in All About Eve. Which I've coveted since I was a teenager. People really do live like that in NYC. I say that as someone who lived in Manhattan 24 years and never lost my awe for, um, those who lived more like the Richards. 

It's gorgerous!!!! Part of me wishes he would also show his first apartment in NYC back almost 20 years ago.

everythingtaboo said: "It's very pretty but doesn't really feel like a home, there's nothing personal. It's as warm as furniture showroom."

Because it’s staged. It is his home but AD has decorators remove clutter and have spaces visually minimalistic for photos. Even in maximalistic homes, decorators organize and stage the clutter to look tidier than in its lived-in state.